- Wear is the damaging,
gradual removal or
deformation of
material at
solid surfaces.
Causes of wear can be
mechanical (e.g., erosion) or
chemical (e.g....
- was an
American archaeologist best
known for
pioneering the
field of
microwear analysis of lithics. He is also
known for his 1996 book, War
Before Civilization:...
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diets of
extant and
extinct animals. In particular,
Ungar has used
dental microwear to
determine the
diets of
extinct hominins such as Australopithecus, Paranthropus...
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Dental microwear analysis is a
method to
infer diet and
behavior in
extinct animals,
especially in
fossil specimens. It has been used on a
variety of...
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Early analyses of
dental microwear in
these two
species showed,
compared to P. robustus, A. afric**** had
fewer microwear features and more scratches...
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techniques are
often used. A
distinction is
often made
between use-wear and
microwear analysis. Use-wear uses an
approach of low
magnification study while micro-wear...
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Based on
dental microwear-texture analysis, H.
habilis (like
other early Homo)
likely did not
regularly consume tough foods.
Microwear-texture complexity...
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other savanna-based
foods of any
South African primate.
Analysis of the
microwear patterns on the
molar teeth showed that they were
similar to
those of...
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suggesting their diet
consisted of
mostly soft fruit,
though examination of
microwear patterns suggests that po****tions from
lower latitudes also consumed...
- Soressi, M. (2018). "Neandertal fire-making
technology inferred from
microwear analysis".
Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 10065. Bibcode:2018NatSR...810065S...
